Snake

Snake is Worm, remade. One screen and two rules: eat the food and grow, don't run into the wall, the spiders, or yourself. The worm gets faster with every fifteen bites and a the fast you go the more each meal is worth - ten points at the start and forty at the fastest.

A spider arrives every ten meals and sits where it lands run into it and it costs a life.

Every twenty meals a heart appears while you have a life to win back and when you have all three, the spiders turn amber and can be eaten instead, for fifty points. Eating food ends that, and takes out any heart still on the field.

You get three lives. A lost life lays the worm out fresh at the speed you had earned. The third is the game over, and your run goes to the board.

Five themes.

• Phosphor
• Wireframe
• Scope
• Blueprint
• Vector

Snake has five themes. Chosen your favourite in the OPTIONS menu, or select the RANDOM option for a different theme setting each round. Each theme comes with it's own unique soundtrack.

RetroPlay Network Compatible.

Set RETROPLAY to NETWORK in the OPTIONS menu, then sign in from the Retro Play pop-up (F1), and:

• World leaderboard - every game over posts your run to the MARATHON board and tells you where it landed, right on the summary. A new best says so.
• The Daily - different challange a day, the same for everyone: the worm you start with (a long slow one, a short fast one) and where the food falls. The day has its own board. Play it as often as you like - it's the same game each time for that day, so try and be the best over and over.
• Who's playing - the pop-up shows how many are on Snake right now, and your status: ONLINE, INVISIBLE, or OFFLINE.

Without a network card, Snake is just Snake.

Controls

• D-pad steers. START pauses; from the pause, B leaves.
• Cursor keys, Enter and the keyboard work in place of a control pad.
• F1 opens the Retro Play pop-up on the menu and the summary

What you need

• A Commander X16 or OtterX, and an SD card for the game's files.
• For the online features: a Retro Play account (free) and a serial network card.